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Your Activity today!
Individual artists, diverse cultural groups, organizations,
municipalities, and festivals old and new, small and large are
coming together in the pan-Canadian volunteer movement known
as Culture Days to catalyze and inspire greater public
participation in arts and culture.
Join the movement! Fill out this preliminary
registration form to let us know you intend to offer an
arts or cultural activity during Culture Days in your
region!
What's
this about?
Culture Days is a volunteer movement and annual event open
to all communities and individuals who believe in the
importance of arts and culture in Canadian life. How the
movement works: Provinces and territories across Canada
are each designating a weekend in September as Culture Days in
their region. Volunteer committees are working at the
provincial and national levels to secure media partners and
corporate champions who will help get the word out to the
Canadian public. During Culture Days, thousands of activity
organizers across Canada will invite the public to experience
and co-create arts and culture in the very communities where
they live. Will you be one of them?
This is an open call for all individuals, groups and
municipalities to join the movement and offer a free
participatory or interactive arts or cultural activity during
Culture Days in your region. Everyone is encouraged to get
involved – whether you are a professional or amateur cultural
creator (i.e. artist, artisan, educator, animateur,
historian, curator, architect, designer, etc), group or
organization, including culturally diverse, Aboriginal, urban
and rural communities. There is no fee to register. If you
have a free participatory or interactive arts or cultural
activity to offer to the public during Culture Days in your
region – be it new or something you already have planned – register
your activity here!
When
will Culture Days be in my province or
territory?
For the year 2010, Culture Days will take place during the
following dates:
- British Columbia: September 24 – 26
- Yukon: TBA
- Alberta Arts Days: September 16 – 18
- Northwest Territories: TBA
- Saskatchewan: September 24 – 26
- Manitoba: September 24 – 26
- Nunavut: TBA
- Ontario: September 24 – 26
- Québec Journées de la culture* : September 24 –
26
- Newfoundland & Labrador: TBA
- Prince Edward Island: TBA
- Nova Scotia: TBA
- New Brunswick: TBA
*Activity registration for Québec's Journées de la
culture is available on the website of Culture
pour tous.
Why
will this work?
Culture Days is a valuable collective experiential
marketing opportunity for “the outside world” to get a glimpse
of what and who is inside. People love to peep behind
the scenes. People want to know who you are! Many will even
want to learn how to “do” arts and culture themselves. (Look
at how popular biographies and documentaries are, or the
thousands of blogs and videos online that show you how to DIY
- Do It Yourself.)
Culture Days is a hands-on opportunity to get intimate with
arts and culture in person.
Everyone has a creative spark in them. Every community is
full of creativity, arts, and culture. Culture Days is a
unique opportunity to boost the reach and impact of all our
arts and cultural activities year-round by collectively
working together to showcase the vibrancy of our arts and
culture, and to encourage everyone to discover something new,
something different, and to re-connect with their own
creativity and community.
For more great reasons to get involved, check the call for
participation on your
province or region’s Culture Days webpage.
Questions? Please read our
FAQ. Still got questions? Contact
us.
recognizes best practices in citizen
engagement. This year's focus is on education. "We feel that
Canada's cultural institutions play a very significant role in civic
education and have many unique programs designed to engage citizens
in active exploration of and participation in Canadian heritage,
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